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opinion
Students need vote
on governing board
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lieutenant governor, Republican senator Norma
Russell and Democratic representative Mike
Daniel disagreed about student representation
on USC's board of trustees. Daniel said he will
not support placing a student on the board, and
Russell said it would be 4'ludicrous" not to have
students on the board.
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are not included on the board of trustees. The
board decides all issues of major importance to
students, yet no student has a vote on such
issues. Students may attend the meetings, but
their influence is definitely limited. The trustees
vote as they wish, with or without student support.
Students want and deserve a voice in the
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opinions should be considered on issues as trivial
as name changes of campus buildings and as
significant as tuition increases.
The university has a Student-Trustee Liaison
Committee, formed under Student Government,
which meets at regular intervals with the board
to offer the trustees student feedback and
discuss issues that may be of relevance to
students. This committee may be effective
because it gives trustees an insight into student
desires and opinions, but the board is free to
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cnjcept ur reject any a a vice or requests made by
the Student-Trustee Liaison Committee. The
committee has no vote on the board.
Perhaps the S.C. General Assembly could
create a voting position on the USC board of
trustees for one student. This student should be
elected at-large from the student body and
should remain separate from Student Government
to maintain complete autonomy. This
student should be given all rights as an equal
voting member of the board of trustees and
should be responsible for investigating students'
needs and representing the student body.
Although an at-large election of the student
trustee may present the problem of electing
someone who is not representative of the whole
student body, this method is still the best way to
fill the position. All students will be allowed a
voice in the way the university is governed by
voting for the student trustee.
Lest one forget, the only reason USC or any
other college exists is its students. Without
students there is no university. Without a
university, there's no need for a board of
trustees.
For a country that prides itself on its
democratic system, something is unfair about
not allowing students a voice in their campus
government. The trustees should open themselves
to students by allowing one student a seat
on the board, allowing him the right to vote on
issues affecting all USC students.
One vote may not change the board's wishes or
make any major impact on decisions, but it's
more than students have now.
One vote is a good start.
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Editor:
I feel I must respond to the editorial
opinion expressed on Oct. 15 concerning
the Bob Jones University tax
case. The issue of BJU's tax exempt
status will be decided by the Supreme
Court (they are not "fighting" the
court).
I am not responding to this
issue; what I wish to respond to is the
blatant misrepresentation of BJU in
the column.
Statements made concerning BJU's
rules were often untrue. For example,
men and women are allowed to date at
Sunday worship services, contrary to
SAGA earns
Editor:
Compliments to our new campus food
Services Inc., specifically on the Russ
The Grand Market Place.
. In my past tluee years at USC, I cou
the fingers of one hand the number of ti
at the Russell House Cafeteria. This yea
The Grand Market Place is a pleasant e
both the food and the atmosphere.
The lines are usually short, and whe
move quickly. The serving and dinir
clean. The employees are polite. The r
doesn't sound like it's coming from a
variety of food offered all day is the be:
the prices are still rhpanpr than
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Keep up the good work.
Student attai
Editor:
I think I have finally figured out
why the Gamecock is such a vain
attempt at a meaningful periodical.
Enlightenment came from reading
Tara L. Osborn's peculiar guest
editorial, "Maniacal actions exist in
everyone" (Oct. 15, 1982). It seems to
generally wish to express some truths
of the present world and yet
simultaneously seems to know not
even the first logical argument to
arrive at them, much less express
them.
Her preliminary premises and/or
conclusions (the bewildering tack of
hci argument maKes it difficult to
decide which) are all either
irrational, half-true, or false: (1) that
a part o; us dies when anyone dies,
which implies that everyone is a part
of everyone else, unknown or evil,
which is sheer nonsense; (2) that our
intrasocial contact is some new
development, which it is not; (3) that
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the writer's statement that "male
students sit on one side" and females
on the other. Monitors do not walk
around during the service, either.
Dress and dating rules are strict, but
not as rigid as the writer implies. Men
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other, and men must not "wear ties at
all times."
It seems that the writer was taking
pot-shots at whatever seems objectionable
about the school, without
regard for the truth or accuracy of the
pot-shot. This resulted in a very
distorted picture of the school; it also
praise | Shuttl
service, SAGA Food defem
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Editor:
This is a letter i
Id probably count on 22? 1982, entill<
imes that I had eaten predictable." Mr
ir, however, eating at Monday Oct. 18,1
xperience because of (the reverse rout
again decided to
the Capstone stop
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dentist's office. The fact, two appearai
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Raba Hull
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vironment, ignoring, like most, that
the most significant effect in our
environments is our own consciousnesses;
and (4) that society as a
whole suffers when "one of us goes
awry," which is hardly true and
supported by none of the examples
she gives. From this (by whatever
perverse convolusions of thought),
Miss Osborn concludes that everyone
is a potential murderer and saint. And
yet our (inter-) dependence is
necessary. That is, not only might
juui neiftuuor Kin you, he is just the
man you are bound to rely on. No man
may be an island, but if this were true,
he should want to be one.
But besides being an illogical mess
and false, the main question is why
did the Gamecock print this? Then I
considered it in the light of two recent
reviews (Oct. 1, 1982). In one, Mr.
Doug Bell claimed that the fatally
dishonest "Gallipoli" was a
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confused the issue that the column
was supposedly addressing: the
Supreme Court case concerning
BJU's tax exemption.
It is unfortunate that the column
was not written in a more professional
manner.
Jen Eniminger
Music graduate student
Editor's note: The information in the
editorial concerning the rules and
regulations at Bob Jones University
was received from a former BJU
student now' attending USC and
several Greenville residents who
frequently visit the campus.
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Is system
in response to Andy Shaw's letter of Oct.
id "Shuttle system unreliable, un.
Shaw, I was driving a Shuttlecock on
982, in the direction you wanted to travel
k). in your leuer you slated "...I once
chance it. That was at 5 p.m." I was at
) between 5:10 and 5:20 p.m.; also, the
n the same direction came by the Capn
5:15 and 5:30 p.m. The Shuttlecock did
ranee that cold October evening" ? in
nces.
and suggestions about the USC Shutre
greatly appreciated and may be sent
ortation Services, 703 Pendleton St.
James Michaeison
Asst. Shuttlecock Coordinator
entertainment
"rewarding experience" and in the
other, Mr. John Vaughan claimed
"The Birthday Party," an atrocity of
non-meaning, had "several levels,"
which is both false and unsupported in
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reviews and in the printing of Miss
Osborn's letter is an obvious influence
by the most transparent attempts at
intelligence and depth. It would seem
that one need only to have heard that
a supposed work of art is intelligent to
be lauded as such in the Gamecock,
and that any editorial will be printed
as long as it uses big words or heady
concepts, however sillv or
meaningless.
I have become increasingly embarrassed
to read the Gamecock,
though at the rate of your descent it
will not be long before I read it out of
sheer wonderment of the depths to
which you will attain.
Arthur L. Williams
Philosophy/religious studies sophomore